Github user kongweihan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/helix/pull/88#discussion_r117354732 --- Diff: helix-core/src/main/java/org/apache/helix/task/JobRebalancer.java --- @@ -455,6 +454,44 @@ private ResourceAssignment computeResourceMapping(String jobResource, return ra; } + /** + * If assignment is different from previous assignment, drop the old running task if it's no + * longer assigned to the same instance, but not removing it from excludeSet because the same task + * should not be assigned to the new instance right way. + */ + private void dropRebalancedRunningTasks(Map<String, SortedSet<Integer>> newAssignment, + Map<String, SortedSet<Integer>> oldAssignment, Map<Integer, PartitionAssignment> paMap, + JobContext jobContext) { + for (String instance : oldAssignment.keySet()) { + for (Integer pId : oldAssignment.get(instance)) { + if (jobContext.getPartitionState(pId) == TaskPartitionState.RUNNING + && !newAssignment.get(instance).contains(pId)) { + paMap.put(pId, new PartitionAssignment(instance, TaskPartitionState.DROPPED.name())); + jobContext.setPartitionState(pId, TaskPartitionState.DROPPED); --- End diff -- You're right. However, on the other hand, if we don't set it, after the task is actually dropped, its CurrentState is deleted and JobRebalancer won't update the DROPPED state into JobContext. After the same task is scheduled again, it will be set to INIT. If something's wrong and the task is not scheduled, during this period the JobContext state is RUNNING but the task is already dropped. Which way do you think is better?
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